The state Attorney General’s ballot title defining same-sex marriage, which 3 million Washington voters likely will see in voter pamphlets and on their ballots in November, is being challenged in court as “prejudiced”, “complex” and “confusing.” The language that “is not neutral, but instead creates prejudice toward the measure — such as the term ‘redefine […]
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The Maryland State Senate voted to legalize same-sex marriage late Thursday, sending the legislation to Gov. Martin O’Malley, who campaigned for it and pledges to sign it within a week. Maryland becomes the eighth state, and the second this month, to approve marriage equality. Gov. Chris Gregoire signed Washington’s marriage bill into law last week. […]
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The Maryland House of Delegates narrowly approved same-sex marriage on Friday, increasing chances that as many as three states will vote on marriage equality in the November election. The “Civil Marriage Protection Act” goes on to the Maryland Senate, where approval is likely, and then to the desk of Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley for signature. […]
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The New Jersey State Assembly approved same-sex marriage by a 41-33 vote on Thursday, just a week after Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire signed marriage equality into law in this state. Despite legislative approval, however, the Garden State may not become the eighth state to license civil marriage between same-sex couples. Republican Gov. Chris Christie has […]
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Seeking to end a 27-year grip by Democrats on the governor’s office, Republican Rob McKenna has opened up a 45-36 percent lead over Democrat Jay Inslee in the latest Elway poll. The McKenna advantage is built on a two-to-one lead among independent voters and support from 13 percent of Democrats polled in the survey of […]
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The proposed referendum to block same-sex marriage in Washington has a new title — R-74, the Secretary of State’s office announced Tuesday. “It turns out R-73 was assigned last spring to a campaign challenging last year’s medical marijuana law: Nothing came of that effort,” reported David Ammons of chief spokesman for Secretary of State Sam […]
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The state House of Representatives, after two hours of intense debate, voted 55-43 on Wednesday to make Washington the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage. The legislation passed the State Senate last week, and goes to Gov. Chris Gregoire who has promised to sign it into law. Gregoire, one of several Catholic governors who support […]
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The two bishops of the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle, in a new letter, warn that actions in Olympia and Washington, D.C., are “threats” and “attacks on our religious liberties” and ask the faithful to contact their lawmakers. The letter from Archbishop J. Peter Sartain and Auxiliary Bishop Eusebio Elizondo follows closely on an appeal last […]
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Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, who once positioned himself as an advocate of gay rights, condemned Tuesday’s ruling in which a federal appellate court overturned California’s Prop. 8. Prop. 8, passed by a 52-48 percent margin in 2008, stopped same-sex marriages in America’s largest state, and defined marriage as between a man and a woman. […]
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A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday struck down California’s Proposition 8, a measure which defined marriage as between a man and a woman. The measure rolled back same-sex marriage in America’s largest state, and met with a legal challenge that brought together lawyers on rival sides of […]
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